Explore the Odisha High Court’s ruling on the bail application of Amit Beriwal, accused in a massive GST fraud case. The court emphasizes the seriousness of economic offenses.
High Court of Orissa held that The offence of Money Laundering is nothing but an act of financial terrorism that poses a serious threat not only to the financial system of the country but also to the integrity and sovereignty of a nation.
Rabindra Kumar Mohanty Vs Registrar, ITAT (Orissa High Court) Article 265 of the Constitution mandates that no tax can be collected except by authority of law. Appellate proceedings are also laws in strict sense of the term, which are required to be followed before tax can legally be collected. Similarly, the provisions of law are […]
Serajuddin and Co. Vs Union of India (Orissa High Court) A perusal of sub-section 4 of the Section 75 of CGST Act 2017 makes it clear that whenever an assessee, chargeable with tax and penalty makes a request in writing for opportunity of hearing, such an opportunity should be granted to him. Here, admittedly though […]
Orissa High Court in the case of M/s. Safari Retreats Private Limited vs. Chief Commissioner of CGST held that Credit on inputs/services used for construction of malls for the purpose of letting out is allowable.
Safari Retreats Private Limited Vs Chief Commissioner of Central Goods & Service tax (Orissa High Court) The case of the petitioners is that the petitioners are mainly carrying on business activity of constructing shopping malls for the purpose of letting out of the same to numerous tenants and lessees. Huge quantities of materials and other […]
Observing that the provisions in the Customs Act were silent about demurrage, the High Court held that it is beyond the legislative powers to include demurrage charges in the rules for Customs valuation. Supreme Court judgements in Wipro ltd, Essar Steel Ltd. and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. were relied on.
Pramod Behera Construction Vs Commissioner of State Tax (Orissa High Court) We find that although under the GST regime all applications required to be done online. in the event any dealer faces any problem in uploading such data, the Commissioner ought to place alternative authority with the Sales Tax Officer or appropriate officer before whom […]
Where properties attached by Tax Recovery Officer (TRO) had already been subjected to recovery proceedings by a secured creditor under SARFAESI Act, 2002, the attachment order was quashed in view of section 35 of SARFAESI Act which makes it clear that the Act would override other laws and would have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force.
Ballasts or boulders or chips being mineral as per Entry 117 of the taxable list are exigible to tax at the rate of 4% of taxable list. Moreover, the appeal has been purportedly filed before the Tribunal with proper perspective and there is no defect in raising any such plea before it.
